International audience; Agreements about reciprocal recognition of patent rights between nations were at the heart of discussions at the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property held in Paris in 1883. Yet while some treat the so-called “Paris Union”...

Rabindranāth's collection of poems Shesh saptak appeared on the poet's seventy-fourth birthday, 25 Vaishākh 1342 (8 May 1935). Anticipating the pre-planned date of publication, he writes in poem #43: The twenty-fifth of Vaishākh flows on, carrying the tide of birthdays ...

This article is a study of the critical potential and ethical implications of encounters between fictionalised characters and unsuspecting real people. Through the case studies of Borat, The Ambassador, and the Yes Men’s media hoaxes, I aim to show how the use of fictio...

The prevalence of prone sleeping has decreased dramatically since the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published sleep position guidelines and launched the Back to Sleep Campaign in 1992. One aspect of the guidelines, which suggests placing infants in the prone posi...